My Christmas present this year is a Victory class 060T, a first ready-to-run model from Planet Industrials.
It's a chunky tank engine, not a small loco but compact and powerful looking, with nice proportions and simple lines. The model is very fine, and surprisingly heavy.
The tidy lines of the loco means it is modest in apparent detail, but look closer and there are lamp irons, brakes and rigging, sprung buffers, and peering into the cab a fully detailed back-head and controls are present and painted too. It is even supplied with a leaflet explaining the origins of the class and where the 12 locos built served.
The couplings are a little droopy, but nothing a tightening of a screw won't fix by the look of it, and as an industrial loco it will need a little weathering as well as coal in the (empty) bunker and a crew. However, the more pressing issue for me is the lack of a layout to run it on. I'm sure I'll get around to addressing that some day.
Happy Christmas, and I hope Santa brought you something nice too!
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